Adherence to the policy guidelines and standards is necessary for family planning services. We compared public and private facilities in terms of provision of family planning services. We analyzed data from health facility questionnaire of the 2006 Tanzania Service Provision Assessment survey, based on 529 health facilities. Majority of public facilities (95.4%) offered family planning services...

objective: to find out the quality of anc in the upazila health complexes (phc centres) of bangladesh. materials and methods: this cross sectional study was done in purposively selected three upazilas among the clients receiving antenatal care (anc). data were collected with questionnaire cum checklist in the context of two aspects of quality issues, namely assessment of physical arrangements f...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the burden of acute otitis media (AOM) on Canadian families. DESIGN Telephone survey using random-digit dialing. SETTING All Canadian provinces between May and June 2008. PARTICIPANTS Caregivers of 1 or more children aged 6 months to 5 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Caregivers' reports on the number of AOM episodes experienced by the child in the past 12 months, as w...

background:satisfactionlevel is animportant indicator for measuringthe quality of services. enhancing the quality of services provided in the emergencydepartments need to have thecorrect understanding of the current situationand problems of thesedepartments. this study wasperformed to examine patients satisfaction andtheir problems in the emergencydepartment of alzahra hospital.methods: thisdes...

Background A number of developing countries have contracted out public health facilities to the Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in order to improve service utilization. However, there is a paucity of in-depth qualitative information on barriers to access services as a result of contracting from service users’ perspective. The objective of this study was to explore perceived barriers to util...

the present research endeavors to discover similarities and differences among digital libraries in iran and to clarify the extent of their consistency in terms of main library requisites. using a qualitative -quantitative method, i.e. a survey research method using content analysis, it identifies iranian digital libraries (idls) and explores their characteristics. reviewing the literature, we i...

abstract quality of life is a many-sided and complex concept and includes not only physical aspects of life. measuring and discovering this concept depends on many factors such as cultural, social, economical and even environmental. in this research, the connection between women’s quality of life and their access to public utilities and municipal services, health level and safety level of neigh...

one of the strong points of islamic banking, compared to conventional banking system, is the bank's sharing of both profits and losses of  funded activities in the framework of collaborative agreements. the proper implementation of partnership facilities requires respecting religious as well as financial and economic codes. as shown by the evidence, the objections made against the activiti...